I’ve had the privilege of playing with some really talented musicians in my days, and have had more nuggets of wisdom dropped on me by them than I can even begin to count. One that often comes to mind was from a drummer who’s worked with people like Neil Schon and Sean Combs. He always […]

I’m an info hound, I read about everything. If an idea comes into my head, my first thought is, “Hey, that would be fun to know!” I’m constantly learning about things. Some would say that’s a good thing, but I beg to differ. My quest for knowledge often distracts from the things that I should […]

Two boat captains navigating the same waters: one looks out onto the horizon and sees every wave that he’ll have to deal with in the foreseeable future, while the other focuses on the wave that’s right in front of him. That’s kind of how I see the differences between being proactive and reactive. Proactivity, done […]

It’s easy to get stuck in a rut, even easier to keep trying to get out of that rut by a sustained effort of doing the exact same things that got us into the rut in the first place. It’s unrealistic to expect different outcomes if we don’t change things up. More often than not, […]

Starting a business for the first time is hard; there are so many obstacles to overcome, some of them you can predict, but most that you don’t see coming until they’re right in front of you. And it’s easy to look at others who have started and succeeded quickly, which can leave one with feelings […]

Been reading a bit about marketing theories and one question keeps coming up: is it best to lead with building overall brand identity and consistency, or scrap the idea of overall identity and target specific market segments with messages custom tailored to them? In a perfect world, we’d do both, but what do we lead […]

A new year. For many, this brings about a time of reflection, looking back over the last year and thinking about what when right, what didn’t, and how we’d like to see things go for the upcoming year. Are we as physically fit as we want to be? Are our relationship where we’d like them […]

Part of the struggle in developing anything in business, whether it’s a business plan, product, webpage or whatever, is determining when you’re done, when it’s finished. That can be a tough thing as there are compromises in everything. The problem is that, while we’re defining what “finished” looks like, days, weeks and month go rolling […]

A quote from Gary Keller of Keller Williams: “When you see someone who has a lot of knowledge, they learned it over time. When you see someone who has a lot of skills, they developed them over time. When you see someone who has done a lot, they accomplished it over time. When you see […]

Things don’t always go as planned, not exactly front page news. In fact, I think that most things don’t go as planned. All of us see how we want things to be in our mind’s eye but, when things don’t go as we want them to, we’re typically able to navigate thought them with a […]